Acta Scientiarum. Biological Sciences ISSN 1679-9283 (print) and ISSN 1807-863X (on-line) is published quarterly by the State University of Maringá, Maringá, Paraná State, Brazil. The journal publishes original articles in all areas of Biological Sciences, including anatomy, bacteriology, cell biology, animal behavior, ecology, limnology, embryology, and histology, morpho-physiology, genetics, microbiology, parasitology and zoology. 

Aims: To establish the public inscription of knowledge and its preservation; To publish results of research comprising ideas and new scientific suggestions; To publicize worldwide information and knowledge produced by the scientific community; To speech the process of scientific communication in Biological Sciences. 

Indexed in: SCOPUS, Abstracts Journal, AGRIS (International Information System for the Agricultural Sciences and Technology), AGROBASE (Base de Dados Bibliográfica de Literatura Agrícola Brasileira), Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts, Biosis (U.K.), Biological Abstracts, CAB Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts, Elsevier BIOBASE (CABS - Current Awareness in Biological Sciences), EMBASE (Excerpta Medica), Elsevier EMBiology, Periodica, Tropag (Royal Tropical Institute) and Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory, Zoological Record, Academic One File-Gale Cengage Learning, Informe Acadêmico-Gale Cengage Learning, DOAJ, Latindex, BASE Bielefeld, OAISTER, VET INDEX; REDALYC; Academic Journals Database, Portal de Periódicos da UEM.